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Here, we present the idiom 「先聖先師」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

In the old days, he was respectfully called Confucius; he was also called Zhou Gong and Confucius or Confucius and Yan Yuan.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiān shèng xiān shī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sin1 sing3 sin1 si1

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